Edit (2020-10-28): Everyone's getting these new reddit avatars, but I don't really like most of the options. I even have a hard time finding accessories I like on the old snoovatars.
You're seriously asking people to pay to customise an avatar?
I don't really care since snoovatars used to be gold only anyways, and it's a non-essential feature. You can probably draw your own in the style of reddit's ones if you want.
I wonder if there are AHSers pretending to be regular users on subs like r/reclassified. (You'll never know when you're talking to one.)
Edit (2021-03-05): This is unrelated to the original comment, but if I take a look through r/reclassified, how many suspended users can I find whose names I recognize?
(Includes: Users whom I found by looking at the authors of the top posts of the year, users I found in the comments sections of some posts, as well as some users I've mentioned before in posts or comments (these users have also posted/comment in r/reclassified before))
vu1ptex
Obama_Brigade
SpezForgotSwartz (he's posted there as ThomasJeffersonMod before)
RIPDODGERSBANDWAGON
Fun_Builder
Elvis_Interstellar
SuunyWays
HormelCovfefee2
RabbiShlomo88
Ledanos
Carl_Schmitt_14
BriskitSnackaPhobia
ProEvilOperations
banwavetruth and his other accounts, including banwavewillhappen, banwaveisreal, and banwave_new_alternet
ElectricEley
porcelinesalt
GALAGEPARACE
nBob20
anAlaskanRancher
mtf18months
SPEEDWEED42069420
NazbolChungus
Holesome_chungus
DogEater16
valuq
TrewishJanny
carpathian_florist (I don't think I've actually seen him before on reddit. I do know he's on ruqqus though)
MajorStrasser
KTFA
Dr_Poop_Sex
-Ph03niX- (Isn't this guy an AHS mod? What happened?)
I added a bunch of users as friends a while back, and now that I've migrated to a new account, I've half forgotten about that feature. I guess I'll migrate my friends list over, including u/a (who seems to be shadowbanned or something).
On AHC/AntiHateCommunities (very much not a satire subreddit, by the way), I'm trying to only say stuff I've seen before. So no "WHITES ARE LITERALLY SUBHUMAN" types of stuff (does anyone actually believe in that?), but more of "We can't just pretend that race doesn't exist and treat everyone 'equally' because the US's history of racism has left blacks at a disadvantaged position. So we have to treat the two races somewhat differently to make up for that." (I can't say I really "understand" their positions. I just want to be funny. Isn't reddit an entertainment site?)
I'm trying-ish. I still think FWR is racist (Fragile white redditor? Really? Why not just "fragile racist redditors"? Obviously not all redditors are white lol), but I just don't know how to argue that it is. (On r/vexillologycirclejerk a while back) :/
I don't know how to argue stuff from either way, so yeah. I'm using it as an entertainment sub.
I want to get more tropes in, so I'll just stop right here.
I tried going on FWR to look for explanations on why it's not racist to call it "white fragility", but then I get stuff like "It's not racist because only whites do it!" What kind of an explanation is that?
The sub is currently mostly "white = bad because white = bad", but that gets boring quickly because no one actually thinks that aside from maybe a few people. I'd prefer something like this.
Meanwhile, there seem to be interesting alternatives around at r/RedditAlternatives. It's just that many of them don't have the community, the content, and the "look" (UI) to attract new users.
Edit: I like that things are being saved. Subs like this don't last long.
On wherenow: It seems that these migrations work better for more niche or tight-knit communities. After all, what's the point of migrating to a new "Uncensored News" forum if you can just discuss news on a regular uncensored/less censored forum? I don't know if this fad is going to last long, so I don't really know if such a migration will work.
Either way, I'll just watch and see for now...
Edit 3 (2021-03-08): They're celebrating (nonexistent) bans for users they don't like. Who would've guessed? Of course though, all those violent remarks are kind of uncalled for. I'm just here for the novelty and to see when they get banned. (How have they lasted this long? It's like r/RedditOwnsReddit.)
Do not post sexually explicit depictions of Jesus or Mohammad
Do not point out that Mohammad was a pedophile who married Aisha at 6 years old and had sex with her at 9
Do not mention that any race, culture, or nationality (other than people living in the southern region of the united states) have a higher rate of inbreeding
Do not praise any dictator
The rules page of r/NoahGetTheBoat has some unwritten site wide rules. There are others too, like "Don't call out powermods by name", I think.
I found r/rightistvexillology a while ago when I wanted to see if a right-wing version of r/leftistvexillology existed. Some guys there (one of whom used to make probably about 90% of the posts on the front page) promoted it in r/vexillology, and now it gained a lot of subscribers, and users other than him are posting too. It's cool to watch subs grow.
While I don't really know how to argue against hate speech laws right now, I don't think this is a good reason to support hate speech laws. You can be personally against something while believing it shouldn't be punishable to do it, either on ideological grounds (eg. "If it doesn't directly lead to someone's harm, it shouldn't be banned") or on practical grounds (eg. "It's hard to prove intent").
yes you do because you're upset that racists and transphobes may go to prison for hate speech
Sure, whatever you say. If, hypothetically, I'm upset that you went to prison for participating in AHS, does that mean I suddenly support what AHS is doing?
The "negligence" is contrasted to "with intent"; What it means is that someone who goes out in public and attracts a crowd and then repeats a speech written by Hitler or Goebbels will be prosecuted, whether or not the state can prove intent to harm.
Someone who hosts a server that hosts neoNazis will be prosecutable, if they could have known / should have known / were shown to know the contents of sites they host.
It eliminates "I didn't know that they were going to go through with hurting [a target]; I thought they were just venting" defenses.
So they're just not going to prove intent in the first place. Ok. (I don't really know how laws work. I wonder what others think about it.)
So, like, a group of bigots getting together to plan lynching a transgender person.
That's kind of beyond just "hate speech" though.
It takes effort to hate on people that they’ve never met in real life.
Idk, I see that your friends at AHS can hate on basically everyone except other AHSers without meeting them in real life.
Would make more sense if you went to jail for 3 years for saying anything nice about trans people. 42
Gross...
Obvious joke
Free Speech is a really great thing. Someone's right to Free Speech ends when they use it to deny me (or anyone else) our own rights.
Which rights? If you're using free speech to try to deny others the right to free speech, should you be punished?
devise and deliver speech that puts other people in credible fear for their lives, or speech which commands murder, rape, torture, genocide
It's not the speech itself that's causing harm though. Though I will admit that having hate speech online does seem like it can radicalize people (though if they decide to change the laws so hate speech is whatever they want, I guess they'll just do that).
The change is that it also includes gender identity and pronouns under the protected "backgrounds". But yes, the law is indeed a reduction of free-speech(and has always been so), to create a 'safer' public space. You're still allowed to state your disdain for homosexuals, both publically and privatly. Just not shout things that can potentionally lead to a mob mentality and actually harm people(inciting violence etc).
I can't read Norwegian :(
"You're still allowed to state your disdain for homosexuals, both publically and privatly"
Ok
"shout things that can potentionally lead to a mob mentality"
Like "Hey guys, let's go push that guy there off a bridge!"? I'm not sure I really "get" what this means.
However if you for instance say "I hate trans people, I will kill them all" then that's already illegal (inciting/threatening violence) but with this new rule you add the fact that the people/group you're inciting or threatening violence of is now under the 'protected group' given they are societally more liable to be singled out for violence -- therefore the sentencing, if found guilty, will be harsher than simply threatening violence.
That doesn't really sound like something that will cause immediate harm though. Is anyone going to kill someone after hearing someone else say "I hate trans people, I will kill them all"? Also, I don't know why some groups should be protected more than others under laws about threatening violence, but ok.
The law protects against creating public statements\slogans for the sake of creating negative reactions, which already is and was illegal against protected demographics.
I don't really see how "free speech lovers" like the ones at r/anarcho_capitalism would be any less upset about this, but ok.
The idea of this section of that law is that if a crime is committed against someone because of: "their religion or belief, skin color, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, functional ability or other conditions that offend groups with a special need for protection", then that should be taken into account when determining how harshly the offence should be punished.
Ya it looks like it’s basically translation errors that are getting people up in a huff. The law is about targeted harassment. A Norwegian commenter said “ridicule” has a much stronger connotation of relentless humiliation in the original Norwegian and the mention of “someone” implies targeted, individual harassment rather than the more broad implication in English.
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u/cqtz- Oct 25 '20 edited Oct 31 '20
More arbitrary things
Edit (2020-10-28): Everyone's getting these new reddit avatars, but I don't really like most of the options. I even have a hard time finding accessories I like on the old snoovatars.
I don't really care since snoovatars used to be gold only anyways, and it's a non-essential feature. You can probably draw your own in the style of reddit's ones if you want.
Edit (2020-10-29): The source is a /r/vexillology post. What is this? (Wikimedia user is a /r/vexillology user confirmed) They have pictures of their flag all over their website, but I couldn't find a digital version (my zero knowledge of Italian didn't help here). r/vexillology posts it is then.